smok

See also: Smok, SMOK, smók, šmok, and Šmok

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• smuk (Mooring)

Etymology

Likely a Middle Low German borrowing, from smuk (“supple, bendsome, pleasing”), from Old Saxon *smuk, *smukk, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“flexible, bendsome, easy”). Compare German schmuck.

Adjective

smok (comparative smoker, superlative smokst)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) beautiful, handsome

Inflection

Inflection of smok (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

	masculine		feminine / neuter	plural
	indefinite	definite
positive
predicative / adverbial	smok
attributive	smoken	smok		smok
independent				smoken
partitive	smoks			—
comparative
predicative / adverbial	smoker
attributive	smokeren	smoker		smoker
independent				smokeren
partitive	smokers			—
superlative
predicative / adverbial	am smoksten
attributive	—	smokst		smokst
independent				smoksten

Polish

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smok

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *smokъ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔk/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Podegrodzie) IPA^(key): [ˈsmɔk]

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: smok
• Homophones: smog, Smok

Noun

smok m animal (female equivalent smoczyca, diminutive smoczek, augmentative smoczysko, related adjective smoczy)

1. dragon (mythical creature)
   • 2012, Ewa Mirkowska, 59 bajek o zwierzętach, Siedmioróg:

     – No właśnie – pokiwał głową tata kot – takie są krokodyle, wyglądają jak zielone smoki.

     "Exactly", papa cat nodded his head, "that's crocodiles for you, they look like green dragons."

2. (Podegrodzie, humorous) used as a nickname for someone

Declension

Declension of smok

	singular	plural
nominative	smok	smoki
genitive	smoka	smoków
dative	smokowi	smokom
accusative	smoka	smoki
instrumental	smokiem	smokami
locative	smoku	smokach
vocative	smoku	smoki

Derived terms

verbs

• palić jak smok impf

Further reading

• “smok”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “smok”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• smok in PWN's encyclopedia
• Karol Mátyás (1891), “smok”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 329

Volapük

Noun

smok (genitive smoka, plural smoks)

1. smoke

Declension

Declension of smok

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	smok	smoks
Genitive	smoka	smokas
Dative	smoke	smokes
Accusative	smoki	smokis
Predicative1	smoku	smokus
Vocative	o smok	o smoks

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Further reading

• “smok”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)